Monitoring Changes in Nighttime Lights and Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions During Geopolitical Conflicts From a Remote Sensing Perspective

Monitoring changes in nighttime lights and anthropogenic CO2 emissions during geopolitical conflicts from a remote sensing perspective

Monitoring spatiotemporal changes in anthropogenic CO2 is crucial for informing international climate change policy initiatives, but also challenging due to the absence of national inventories and statistical data during such conflicts. Currently, nighttime light (NTL) remote sensing data is often used for spatial disaggregation of CO2 emission statistics, while the construction of existing anthropogenic CO2 emission datasets relies on ground ob…

Collateral damage: How contemporary warfare exacerbates the climate crisis

Climate change and armed conflict are increasingly interconnected, yet global climate frameworks largely ignore the environmental toll of war